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SOUTH SUDAN / FAMINE
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / FAMINE
TRT: 2.41
SOURCE; WFP / UNICEF
RESTRICTONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 23 – 25 JULY, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Med shot, rain and destroyed house
2. Med shot, children wading through water
3. Various shots, mothers and babies in MSF clinic for acute malnutrition
4. Med shot, child weighed
5. Close up, testing for malnutrition
6. Close up, feeding a kid with Plumpy Nut
7. Med shot, women taking nutrition packs
8. Close up, Cousin
9. Wide shot, Cousin and Lake
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, Executive Director UNICEF:
“We have to address what is becoming a nutritional catastrophe and it s now a nutritional disaster for so many children. We need to address it not only when they are in a severe state, which UNICEF works on but it also means working on it in a slightly earlier stage while it is still moderate which WFP concentrates on. We have to bring in more health supplies, we have to somehow gets kids back into school we have to help find shelter for them, protection for children.”
11. Wide shot out patient feeding centre for malnourished children
12. SOUNDBITE (English), Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, WFP:
“Food alone does not meet the nutrition needs of a child, if there is poor sanitation, if there is no clean water, what you have is a child who has diarrhea. And we are seeing in those hospitals children who are afflicted with upper respiratory conditions as well as diarrhea. So if we are providing them with food but they don’t have the other support that they need because of the conditions that they are living in then you will find children who are malnourished. Food alone won’t do it. We must provide the food but we must also make sure that they live in conditions that have access to clean water and sanitary living spaces. We need to get the children out of the mud. “
13. Wide shot, UN POC Camp Malakal
14. Wide shot, people walking through mud
15. Puddle, with reflection of people walking by
The heads of UNICEF and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that children in South Sudan cannot wait any longer before the world takes action. Two UN agencies directors visited camps for displaced in town of Malakal, where they met severely malnourished children and their mothers.
The UN agency heads said they fear the world is allowing a repeat of what occurred in Somalia and the Horn of Africa just three years ago; when early warnings of extreme hunger and escalating malnutrition went largely unheeded until official famine levels were announced.
Nearly 1 million children under five years of age in South Sudan will require treatment for acute malnutrition in 2014, according to UNICEF and WFP. If the world fails to provide the help needed right now to accelerate and scale up life-saving food and nutrition efforts, UNICEF estimates that 50,000 children could die from malnutrition in the course of this year.
Although the conflict is focused in three states of South Sudan, a staggering one in every three people throughout the country – some 3.9 million people - face dangerous levels of food insecurity, with many of them not knowing when and how their next meal is coming.
The unremitting cycle of violence in South Sudan, which has caused the displacement of more than a million people inside the country, over half of them children, has disrupted agricultural activities as well as provision of social services, trading, and the operation of markets, causing massive loss of livelihoods.
Additionally, the lack of access to health care and safe water and sanitation facilities is putting children at a dangerously high risk of acute malnutrition. The situation is compounded by the challenges faced by humanitarian workers in reaching children and families most in need due to the fighting, lack of infrastructure, limited partners and shortages of funding.
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